• Wash strawberries with cold water and drain.
• Place strawberries in-between paper towels and dry them completely. Make sure they are completely dry.
• NOTE: Any water left on the strawberries will make the chocolate seize up and clump instead of coating them with a smooth layer of chocolate.
• Line a baking sheet with waxed paper. Set aside.
• Place a tube of cookie icing in a dish that's filled with very hot water. Set aside while you prepare chocolate.
• Place chocolate chips in a microwave safe dish and heat in the microwave (at half power) for 20 second intervals; stirring in-between intervals until chocolate is completely melted and soft.
• Grab a strawberry by the green top and dip it into the melted chocolate to coat the strawberry completely. Leaving a little red part of the strawberry to show at the top around the green top makes for a prettier presentation.
• Place each chocolate coated strawberry on wax paper lined baking sheet.
• Work quickly and continue dipping the remaining strawberries, one-by-one in the melted chocolate.
• Line them up in straight rows, with a little space in between each one on the waxed paper lined baking sheet.
• Place the dish of chocolate back into the microwave and heat at half power for 20 seconds to re-soften it if it starts to harden while you are dipping strawberries.
• Once all the strawberries have been coated in chocolate, remove the tube of cookie icing from the bowl of hot water. Drizzle strawberries with the white cookie icing. Drizzle the icing along each row in long sweeps going back and forth until you have icing stripes across all the strawberries.
• Place entire baking sheet in the refrigerator and allow strawberries to chill and for the chocolate to completely set up for 2 hours.
• After 2 hours, gently remove chocolate covered strawberries from the wax paper lined baking sheet and transfer them to a pretty serving dish.

How to add sprinkles, coconut or chopped nuts to chocolate covered strawberries:

• Place chopped nuts, shredded coconut or sprinkles in shallow dishes.
• After you dip each strawberry in the melted chocolate, gently dip and roll it in either chopped nuts, shredded coconut or sprinkles.
• Place on waxed paper lined baking sheet and chill in the refrigerator for two hours to set.
• Serve strawberries chilled.